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This is a deep fried Mars Bar.
A list of awesome things Scotland gave to the world created by Mint Partner strategist Bill Blain is being passed around this morning.
Here's the list. Thanks Scotland!
Penicillin
The Steam Engine and everything that followed it…
TV
The first powered boat
The bicycle
Electromagnetics
The propeller
The Sticky Plaster
Sherlock Holmes
The Carronade
Geology
Tubular Steel
Railways
The Threshing Machine
The Tea Cake
The Transatlantic Cable
Insulin
The Higgs Boson
National Parks
The Slab Laying Machine (my dad!)
Modern McAdamised Roads
The Kevin unit of temperature
The Kaleidescope
Tunnocks Caramel Wafers
The Steam Hammer
Cordite
The Decimal Point
Haemoglobin
Logarithims
Peter Pan
The Fridge
Canal Locks
The Forth Rail Bridge
First Man on the Moon
Para Handy
The Inner Tube
The Lawnmower
Tam o'Shanter
Electric Clocks
Statistics - including the pie chart, the line graph and the bar chart
Beta blockers
The Deep Fried Mars Bar
The Bay City Rollers
The Heavy Lift Crane
Radar
The Hammer Throw
The toaster
Proper Whisky?Surgery
Anaesthetics
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Curling
Hypnotics
Japanese Lager - Kirin
Antibiotics
The Telephone
The New York Herald
The hypodermic syringe
Marmalade
Cardiology
Jam, Jute and Journalism
The Wealth of Nations and the "Science of Economics"
Fingerprints
The Dandy, The Beano, The Victor, The Hotspur
Oor Wullie
The Broons
The Oatcake and Porridge
Ultrasound Scanners
Cure for Malaria
The Encyclopedia (and the Encyclopedia Brittanica)
The Bank of England
The Bank of France - not kidding!
Sociology (ok, forgive us again)
Modern Justice
Earthquake measuring - the seismometer
The Shot Putt
The fax machine
Forbes Magazine
Saturn
John Bull (Not kidding!)
Modern Surgery
The Flushing Toilet
Golf (forgive us)
The Postcard
The Tractor Beam - yes, it exists
Long John Silver
The Tire
Cloned sheep - Dolly
Proxima Centauri
The Raincoat
The eBook
The American Navy
The SAS